Things They Never Tell You

Monday, October 16, 2006 7:41 PM

About having kids - everyone surely has some notion that they tend to destroy things, sometimes out of curiosity and exploration, sometimes out of sheer savagery, like puppies.

What I did not consider until it happened is that they go through a phase where stuff just gets put somewhere else, and I mean somewhere no adult would think to put it or even look for it. Very often, this means the trash can, wich is OK once you figure it out, because you know where to look, but it gets messy. Sometimes things will be in pots inside kitchen cabinets, as another example.

I have not watched all of Firefly yet. I had gotten through "Our Ms. Reynolds" when Disc Two disappeared off the face of the Earth. Being somewhat obsessed with FF currently, and working hard at converting my wife, I found this distressing to say the least.

My youngest is in the random movement of items stage. My oldest is not, but she is in the playing with the DVD player and putting her favorite movies in all the time and opening and closing the door stage. But she does put them in the boxes. So, my disc having disappeared from the player but not into any DVD box (checked them all), I figured the one must have taken it out and the other must have grabbed it and run to some exotic location.

I ransacked the house for hours. Luckily my stubborn/desperate ability to look in the same place over and over again saved me. The disc was in the DVD player. Not in the tray or anything so quaint, but in the guts. It's a DVD/VCR combo, so there's a fair amount of interior space. I thought of that early on, but it could not easily be seen. It was only when I looked underneath the player for the third time, that I lifted it to a sufficient angle to hear the disc slide around inside, and after some manipulation was able to retrieve it.

Day saved. I am thankful because I would not have checked that space again and the player would probably have ended up in the landfill with my oh-so-precious FF #2 still inside.

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